Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,340 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Charles Walter Dryden (Tuskegee Airmen Photo)
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Charles Walter Dryden (1920-2008)
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Mary Jo Wills (1951- )
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Edwin T. Pratt (1930-1969)
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Venus Ebony Starr Williams (1980- )

Explore Global African History

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(1950) Ralph Bunche, “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”
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Habib Koité (1958- )
First World Festival of Negro Arts Album
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First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966- )
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(1949) Nnamdi Azikiwe Speaks at a Rally for Nigerian Independence at Trafalgar Square, London

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Is This Mary Bowser?: The Use and Misuse of Photographs to Reconstruct History
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Slavery and Freedom on a Canadian Shore: Africa’s Children in Nova Scotia, 1750-2009
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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey
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Cowboys of Color in South America

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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